BPS Journals shine with latest impact factors

A strong performance across our portfolio saw impact factors increase for four of the BPS's journals, and eight of the BPS journals improve their ranking in at least one of their respective JCR categories. All journals maintained their quality thresholds.

Highlights include:

• The British Journal of Development Psychology's impact factor increased from 2.148 to 2.3, placing it 46/76 in the Psychology, Developmental category
• The British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology's impact factor increased from 2.410 to 2.6, placing it 6/13 in Psychology, Mathematical, and 30/89 in Psychology, Experimental
• The Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology's impact factor increased from 5.119 to 6.2, placing it 13/83 in Psychology, Applied
• Legal and Criminological Psychology's impact factor increased from 1.756 to 2.3, placing it 75/147 in Psychology, Multidisciplinary and 27/152 in Law
• The British Journal of Educational Psychology increased its ranking to 12/60 in the Psychology, Educational category
• The British Journal of Health Psychology increased its ranking to 7/131 in Psychology, Clinical
• The Journal of Neurosurgery increased its rankings to 46/81 in Psychology (SCIE), and 49/89 in Psychology, Experimental
• Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice increased its ranking to 43/131 in Psychology, Clinical and maintained its ranking of 22/81 in Psychology (SCIE).

 

The Journal Citation Report (JCR) evaluates citations to thousands of journals accepted, under a selective process, for coverage in Clarivate's Web of Science. The JCR provides impact factors and rankings, helping to understand a journal's influence on the global research community.

The journal impact factor is defined as all citations to the journal in the current JCR year to items published in the previous two years, divided by the total number of scholarly items (these comprise articles, reviews, and proceedings papers) published in the journal in the previous two years.

The Impact Factor is one of many metrics that show the collective impact of our journals' published research, and we wish to thank our authors, reviewers, editorial boards, and editors-in-chief for their outstanding work in contributing to consistently strong output.

More information on the range of metrics available to journals can be found online.

In 2021, Clarivate changed the way it counts citations to content by including citations to articles published online ahead of being assigned to an issue (known as 'EarlyView' for the BPS journal portfolio). This led to a temporary boost to citations over the two year impact factor window where EarlyView content featured in the numerator (number of cites) but not denominator (citable items), in turn increasing 2020 and 2021 Impact Factors.

The citation behaviour is now normalised with the 2022 Impact Factor due to EarlyView content being included in both numerator (number of cites) and denominator (citable items). More information with worked examples can be found online.

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